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UPAS , a Javanese word meaning poison, and specially applied to the poison derived from the gum of the anchar tree (Antiaris toxicaria), a member of the fig-family (Moraceae), and a native of the Sunda Islands, which was commonly used to envenom the darts of the natives. The name of the upas tree has become famous from the mendacious account (professedly by one Foersch, who was a surgeon at Samarang in 1773) published in the London Magazine, December 1783, and popularized by Erasmus
Darwin in " Loves of the Plants
Garden , pt. ii.). The tree was said to destroy all animal life
radius
part
stem
For a full account of the tree, see Bennett and Brown, Plantae Javanicae rariores, p. 52 (1838).End of Article: UPAS If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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